tag > Philosophy
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"The creation of the world" - Woodcut from an incunabulum, printed in Nürnberg, 1493
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Many are feverishly working towards fully AI Generated audiovisual media. The more exciting opportunity that most are missing, is creating AI audiences that consume the endless synthetic content - so humans can go to the forest with friends and enjoy the peace.
#ML #Augmentation #Generative #Media #Nature #Philosophy #Culture #Comment
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R.I.P. Antero Alli (1952-2023), a Finnish-American philosopher, writer, film-maker, theater director. Known for his books, incl. on the Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness of Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson.
"I have lived by a code of 'amor fati' for many years - in love with What Is; whatever fate comes my way, I accept. This is no passive acquiescence or subordination to death but a revolution of Spirit to the deep mystery pulsing at the very heart of existence itself." Antero Alli, March 17, 2023
Antero came to redefine death as "Genesis" - a new beginning, a portal into the next chapter of his journey. Our beloved Antero transcended into Genesis yesterday around 12:45pm at home in Portland, Oregon. In his words, "Honestly, I'm not one to mourn over but to celebrate..."
Arto Antero Alexander All - 11/11/1952 - 11/9/2023
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80 years ago: "Machines that think called peril to man"
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The Universe is an ‘inside out’ job.
‘Reality’ is just a word and you shouldn’t use it without quotation marks around it anyway.
~ Joseph Campbell
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Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass. You give life to what you give energy to. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as redaction poetry
In "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" (2023), Marc Andreessen cites Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of "Fascist manifesto" (the OG Italian one) as well as neo-reactionary accelerationism father Nick Land, and he quotes the Futurist manifest approvingly - a document which says that war is the only true hygiene of the world and that museums and libraries (and feminism) should be destroyed. It was a proto-fascist text that inspired Mussolini. History does not repeat itself but it does rhythm...
Interesting related read: Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto" - by Dave Karpf
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"Once you see it in your mind's eye - that's what makes it real. Imagination is reality" - Dr. Richard Alan Miller
